coin see dental. >> we have ever angled covered starting on capitol hill. what are you hearing in the last hour? >> reporter: good evening to both of you. doreen you talked about the timing of some of those oval office meetings. that's what's been raising some eyebrows. you mentioned first that meeting between the president and russian diplomats and secondly a meeting with henry hissen jer. he was the secretary of state under president nixon. both of these meetings had long been on the books. they had already been planned. the timing for many critics adding fuel to the fire today. >> we want answers! >> reporter: with outrage growing over the ouster fbi director jam comey president trump today defending his decision. >> very simply, he was not doing a good job. >> reporter: the white house pointing to comey's controversial handling of the hillary clinton e-mail investigation. >> she would've fired comey immediately and the v

the president today would be dancing in the streets. >> reporter: perhaps more controversial the timing as the fbi investigates possible ties between russia and the trump campaign. sources on capitol hill tell that comey asked for more money and more power for that investigation just days before his firing but the justice department says that's not true. that has democrats crying foul and demanding an independent prosecutor. >> there is a clear and present danger of a cover-up. >> it certainly appears that the president is trying to frustrate this investigation, trying to upend it. >> reporter: the white house insists rod rosenstein recommended comey's firing. >> the president over the last several months lost confidence in director comey. the doj lost confidence in director comey. >> reporter: for president trump today an oval office meeting with russia's top diplomat and russians u.s. ambassador

center. >> reporter: in a tweet of his own the president lashing out at critics of comey's termination promising when things calm down they will be thanking me. the now ousted director comey has been invited to testify next week before the senate intelligence committee. chris? >> thank you. we're seeing some new pictures of james comey after he was ousted as head of the fbi. this is outside his home in mcclain. i shared some of scott macfarlane's reporting. he canvassed the capitol today that comey could come to the hill as early as next week. >> the two top leaders on the senate intelligence committee which includes virginia democrat mark warner have now invited james comey to appear in front of their panel within the week. >> we definitely want to see him next tuesday or as soon as we can. >> reporter: you think it's possible he comes before your committee as early as next tuesday. >> that's been our request and i

tell his side of the story. >> reporter: senator warner says comey has not yet formally accepted. the committee is housed behind this secure door. meanwhile maryland senator says he wants to meet with rod rosenstein, the deputy attorney general who authored the memo detailing why comey was fired. he was maryland's top cop, the state federal's prosecutor. >> have you reached out to or spoken to mr. rosenstein about this. >> i plan to. >> reporter: senators ben cardin and ben hollen both testified in support of rosenstein, urging colleagues to vote in favor of his nomination. senator val hollen's says he's now greatly concerned about rosenstein's judgment in this case and we asked carden for his thoughts. do you trust his judgment? >> i think he was given

did what a lawyer would do. >> reporter: one of our areas local republican members of congress issued a statement about james comey's firing, congresswom congresswoman, said she couldn't defend the firing and says, quote the investigation into the russian impact must continue but chris and doreen, the number of local leaders involved in this story is growing and growing by the day. >> all right. >> we expect to hear a lot more in the coming days. >> rod rosenstein's only been in the job for two weeks. he was confirmed with broad bipartisan support but this incident has united many democrats against him. today three democratic senators told nbc news that not only do they want a special prosecutor, they do not want rosenstein to appoint the special counsel. a senior career official at the department of justice should be the one making the call rather than a political appointee. >> we got a lot more coverage still ahe c

next half hour. pete williams has new insight into what may have prompted comey's sudden dismissal. head to our washington app for more analysis. we have an in-depth look at the firing that stunned washington. >> also tonight students banging on the office door of the president of the university of maryland. dozens of them making their voices heard after someone discovered a noose in a fraternity house late last month. pat collins is on the campus with details. pat? >> reporter: some students out here are angry. they want answers. they want action. this noose incident is not going away. >> stand-up! walk out! >> reporter: chanting all the way, they marched from the student union building to the office of the university president. >> a noose should not be hung in a house or organized by the university. >> reporter: protesters upset by

the university is handling it. there was a back and forth with the vice president of student affairs but it ended with, well, it was something less than a hand shake. >> why won't you less us sit in? >> i think there's a concern about safety and security. >> reporter: it was april 27th. a noose found hanging in the basement of the fy cap pa tou fraternity house on campus, students protesting the today about the way the university is handling this and other hate bias incidents. the protesters want the university to define hate speech acts. >> a clear definition, hate speech could be anything on this campus, yet there's no direct action or consequence. >> reporter: at one point the students attempted a sit-in at the school president's office, but the door, it was locked. from the university

statement from president wallace lowe, he described the noose incident as despicable. i resolutely condemn the use of a symbol of violence and hatred for the purpose of intimidating members of the university of maryland community. campus police continue to investigate the noose incident. so far no one has been held accountable. chris, back to you. >> thank you, pat. >> there was an explosion at a falls church clinic that provides abortions. we're getting a new look at someone's whose connected with that dinlt. the fairfax county fire department released this short surveillance video showing a woman that consider a person of interest. a few weeks ago someone set off fireworks in an elevator on the clinic. the woman is also suspected in other cases dating back to last year. >> the number of u.s. park police officers on the force is steadily dropping especially he

record tourism at d.c. area parks and memorials this past year. staffing is down 15% since 2010. park police may soon face budget cuts under the trump administration. the department provides security for visitors at monuments and landmarks and respond to everything from traffic accidents and vandalism to political demonstrations. >>, you know, if you watch sports all year, you know, there's no two words that are game seven. the verizon the capitals are going to face off against the penguins. >> and we are all over this. carol maloney is talking to players at the verizon center. we'll start with leon harris. he's outside talking to fans heading into verizon. leon, spirits are pretty high, i bet? >> reporter: oh, my god, you have no idea. we've been sitting out here for a couple of hours and it's been amazing how little by little the numbers of people wearing red walking by just gets biggernd

there's now a sea of red going all the way down 7th street behind me and a real crowd of folks assembling outside the doors waiting to get in. every single person that we've talked to has got some kind of a story about why it's important for them to be here for this game seven. i talked to people from as far as away at north dakota believe it or not and just a little while ago i talked with a couple of guys who came here all wait from upstate new york. they left thur home at 5:00 a.m. this morning because they had to be here to support the team they grew up with and they had to be here for this game seven. >> we would never miss this game. >> reporter: why not? >> this is game seven. this is it. this is the culmination of just a great era. weaver -- i don't care about last year, i don't care about any other year. this is tonight. we got it. and that's it. we're getting it done. >> he's telling us this team is one. they're ready. >> reporter: and the fans are

every single person that we talk to is so confident that this is doing to be a different year. this is not going to be 2009, 2010, 2013 all over again. they believe that this time around is going to be a different ending to this movie and the problem is that they may have that kind of confidence but their dreams right now are putting a lot of pressure on the players who have to make those dreams come true. carol maloney has a look at how the team is handling that pressure right now. >> reporter: third straight elimination for the caps. the easiest way to deal with the pressure of a game seven tonight, take a deep breath. that's the first sound we heard when he met the media this morning and now it's all the rage around verizon center. it's normal for everyone to have butterflies but the players say

we're going to go inside the locker room for the emotions of the moment. that's coming up in sports from the verizon center, carol maloney, back to you guys. >> reporter: so the game gets underway at 7:30. we'll watch this build-up out here continue. we're going to try to make our way into that huge sea of humanity. so we'll get check back with you later in the hour and we'll let you see what the scene looks like from there. >> before you wade into that crowd, you got to take that deep breath like carol just showed us too. >> we already took ours. thanks leon. >> he's going to be nkering our coverage all night. the caps not the only team in action. the wizards play a big game against the celtics. >> that's why we call it winzday. we hope all the home teams

>> we got to take a deep breath every time we say that. >> you can tweet your photos to at nbc washington. we want to show how you're showing that winsday spirit. >> the problem that could prompt a third recall impacting thousands of vehicles on the road right now. >> reporter: welcome to the most dangerous intersection for pedestrians in the district. i'll tell you where it is and why it has that ranking coming up. >> reporter: he was a 9/11 first responder and now his name is being added to the arlington police memorial after his exposure to chemicals on that fateful day led to a cancer more than a decade later. coming up, how those closest to him s he vieaywe

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new details tonight in a recall effecting hundreds of thousands of general motors vehicles. news4 has learned that gm is extending the warranty on vehicles that may have defective hlts as the federal government investigates whether the recall should be expanded. consumer reporter susan hogan was the first to report the story and has what you need to know. >> reporter: gm recalled about 316,000 vehicles in 2014 because the head lights just go out without any warning.

180,000 vehicles were added to that list. now comes word that the federal government is investigating whether a third recall is needed. the investigation comes after an additional 128 gm owners complained to the national highway traffic and safety administration that their headlights failed, but their vehicles were not part of the recall. in one complaint the owner of a 2007 chevy trail blazer says he was almost killed when the low beam headlights went out while driving at night. the owner of a 2006 buck lacrosse said our headlights just quick working. in april the investigation opened what's called a recall query. it sets the scope of the initially recall. looking into the possibility that another 317,000 more vehicles may be recalled. in a statement to news4, general motors spokesperson tells us we are cooperating

sa and the query and we'll provide field dataa and other information to help determine whether the recall population should be expanded. >> you can check whether your vehicle is on this list. we posted the list for you on our nbc washington app, just search "gm recall". >> a little boy is recovering tonight after being hit by a car near buoy high school. chopper 4 was over the seen this morning. the child was an elementary school student and had to be airlifted to the hospital. the injuries are serious but the child is expected to survive. >> distracted drivers and pedestrians. both are to blame for trouble on the roads in a new study reveals the 25 most dangerous intersections in the district. transportation reporter adam tuss has been digging through the report and he saided straight for the number one ranked intersection. where are you? >> reporter: chris, this is the

minnesota avenue in northeast d.c., the number one most dangerous intersection in the entire district. take a walk with me here across the road as we make our way here. pedestrians will tell you this can be frightening to get across this road here on a daily basis, but really this is an issue all across the district. about 5,300 pedestrians were hit by cars in the district between 2009 and 2015. that's according to this new study. the highest concentration was in the downtown core and pedestrians are well aware of the conditions. >> they're trying to make it pedestrian friendly but people just don't care. >> reporter: the truth is there are dangerous intersections all across the city. let's take you through the top four most dangerous according to this study. first minnesota avenue and benning road in northeast, which gets a danger index of 53. the danger index here mark risk of collision and serious injury. a high

and pedestrians here makes the likelihood of a serious pedestrian crash greater. next up southern avenue and southeast, not far from united medical center where we've reported on pedestrian accidents, danger index of 51. also with a danger index of 51, 12th street and finally 14th and u streets which has been a notorious intersection. danger index 47. attorney kenneth tropical stormably put this together. distraction is a huge factor in collision cases he represents. >> i'm finding in some of our cases we are learning that the person who was operating the car, who hit our client, was on a cell phone. >> reporter: but it does go both ways. our pedestrians always as alert as they should be? >> they are distracted. they're looking down at their cell phones, they're paying at

talking and not really looking at what's going on. it can be quite hazardous. >> reporter: at the intersection of minnesota avenue and benning road, d.c. has adopted the vision zero plan. that aims to cut down on all traffic related fatalities in the coming years. back to you. >> be careful out there. >> how did it happen? a scare on a red line train as the doors opened on the wrong side. find out what metro's doing to figure out what caused it. >> plus controversy at 30,000 feet. what happened on board at

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>> a chilly beginning to our day but boy it sure turned out to be a beautiful afternoon. >> i got a feeling you're not going to be in sleeveless dresses come tomorrow right, doug? >> everything changes tomorrow. you mention that. today was absolutely gorgeous. 76 degrees. that was the high. i'm taking a look at our calendar. it was the warmest day we've seen since last friday, so we had 76 last friday but before that we were below average for the last week. we've had one day in the 70s over the last week and it looks like we go right back down tomorrow. high temperatures only in the 50s. the clouds have moved in across much of the area especially

d.c. to the north. if you're south of d.c., you're still dealing with sunshine in culpeper. winds out of the north at 7 miles per hour. we were southerly and now we're out of the north. right now 69 gaithersburg, 74 in culpeper. orioles tonight in our house and boy do we need to win this one. 72 degrees at 7:00. 67 by 9:00, 64 by 11:00. a nice night for a ball game and a great night for d.c. sports in general with the wizards and the capitals going on too. radar not much to show. you notice a couple of showers. not really hitting the ground here but this is part of a boundary that's moving through the area. cooler weather to the north as we've been talking about, warmer weather down to the south. we're in the 80s in this region but we're not going to see any of that warm air any time soon. it's a frontal boundary but it is also around a hugea

notice, this storm right here will follow this trend, look where the clouds are coming right on down in towards our region. let's show you on future weather how things are going to shape up early tomorrow morning because that's when the rain moves in. the clouds around 7:00 a.m. here comes the rain around 9:00. we'll see periods of rain throughout the day, keep those umbrellas handy and get the coats out. we're talking a really chilly day. 57, we're 76 today. 57 degrees. temperature difference of nearly 20 degrees tomorrow. periods of rain much cooler and just plain nasty on your thursday. unfortunately, friday and saturday looking equally as nasty. high of 55 on friday. some shower activity, maybe a little bit of drizzle during the day on friday with the clouds and a little bit of a breeze too. saturday high temperature of 56 with rain early. we could see upwards of an inch to inch and a half of rain between thursday and into saturday. a lot of rain coming the next couple of days. mother's day still looking pretty good.

could see an isolated shower. next week, we break out of this pattern and we say hello to the 80s. >> hello 80s sounds pretty good to me. thank you, doug. >> new fallout as fbi director james comey is fired. pete williams has the closer look at what happened in the days before his dismissal. >> and needless to say, this isn't supposed to happen. new action taking by metro after a scary ride on the rails. >> only on news4 tonight, will trial begins to determine who should pay the millions of dollars in cost overruns for the silver spring transit center. ahead, why the montgomery county government doesn't want its employees or

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>> announcer: you're watching news4 at 6:00. >> now to the fallout from president trump's abrupt firing of fbi director james comey. the president told reporters today that he did it because in his words, comey was not doing a good job. white house officials added that mr. trump has been considering letting comey go since election day, but the president has expressed confidence in comey since then. democrats say they believe the dismissal is related to the russian investigation. comey

resources for that investigation. >> tonight we're learning a lot more about those resources that comey asked for in his last days as director of the fbi. pete williams has been talking to his sources on capitol hill and at the justice department with a shock waves are still reverberating. >> reporter: there's a strong feeling at the fbi that the director of the fbi was fired because he wouldn't drop the russia investigation. that's the general sense there despite what is being said by the justice department and the white house. that feeling per sifts at the fbi today and some fbi officials and congressional staffers and people familiar with this say that in the days before the firing, fbi director james comey had met with rod rosenstein, now the deputy, the man who wrote that three page memo saying that the fbi director had completely mishandled the hillary clinton e-mail investigation and it

budget to be able to continue and to in essence expand the russian investigation. this is an investigation into russia hacking into the election last year and potential connections between the russia hacking and members of the trump campaign. after that meeting with rosenstein, the fbi director then mentioned this to members of congress with whom he's been in regular touch about the russia investigation. so that's just an additional fact in the steps leading up to this decision to fire him. i think a fundamental question remains is, what is the genesis for the rod rosenstein memo. was this something that was in essence tasked to the justice department, give us some reasons that we can fire the fbi director? did rosenstein come up with this independently? and then it was greeted at the white house with some fng

looking for? is there a little of both? we just don't know the answer to that question yet. >> speaking of russia, a foreign dignitaries visit sparks question today about freedom of the press, when russia foreign minster came to the white house, he used the west executive entrance. well out of range of reporters questions. the trump administration did not let the american press pool into the oval office but russia's state run news agency was invited in. it was the russian foreign ministry that tweeted this picture. it's highly unusual to keep american reporters out of a meeting that foreign reporters are allowed to cover. lester holt has exclusive interview with the president tomorrow at 6:00. >> this could've ended badly. the metro doors of a red line train opened on the wrong side this morning. fortunately no one was hurt here. it happened at the rhode island

the morning rush. a metro spokesperson says the train operator has already been pulled off the job. metro investigators have also pulled the data from the train as they work to figure out what went wrong here. the train itself has been taken to a rail yard for inspection. >> only on 4, a jury is going to decide whose to blame for the delays and extra costs that have been dogging the silver spring transit center. it opened 2015, five years late and way overbudget. chris gordon is outside the courthouse with more. chris? >> reporter: the transit center has been called a monument to inefficiency. this trial will determine whose responsible for that. the judge in this case has ordered the lawyers not to discuss it publicly for fear that a juror could hear or read something about this trial. the silver spring transit center opened after years of delaysnd

overruns. today the trial started to determine whose responsible for the extra costs. montgomery county told its employees not to talk about the case and is taken down all references to the transit center from its website. the county and the washington metropolitan area transit authority are suing general contract foul jer pratt and other construction design companies for $40 million. some of the concrete cracked during construction of the transit center, necessitying repairs that cost time and money. metro refused to take delivery of the transit center of the time and riders were frustrated. >> it's sad in terms of the entire buildings, built you want to believe that all that money that went in to it that it would have been done right the first time. >> reporter: the contractor is counter claiming for $10 million it says montgomery county owes it for the work it did. the companies told jurors that montgomery county awarded the contract for the transit center before the county got buig

unprepared montgomery county was for this project. the trial's expected to last 30 days. reporting from the montgomery county courthouse, chris gordon, news4. >> and more breaking news. nbc news just learned the senate intelligence committee has issued a subpoena to former national security advisor michael flynn for documents related to their russia investigation. >> united airlines under fire again after one mother says she was humiliated by a flight attendant. >> and beet season is almost here. we got the secrets from locals to make sure you don't spend the summer stuck in traffic. >> i know she's going to see it. >> reporter: here at the verizon center. does this man look ready or what. >> let's go caps! >> reporter: anticipation building. i'll have it for you coming. doug? >> that is just awesome. what's not awesome, this right here. this area of rain around chicago

tomorrow. wait until you see what else it brings with us. i'll see you back here in about

>> united airlines is under scrutiny again. after a passenger posted her awful story to facebook. a nurse and mother of two says the airline forced her to you're nature in a cup on the plane. she says she was on a flight when she needed to go to the bathroom. the fasten seat belt sign was on but she really needed to go. harper says she's lived with an overactive bladder her entire life. left with no choice, she pleaded with the flight attendant enterto either let her use the rest room or give her a cup so she says they handed her a cup. >> people, you know, all around that, you know, strangers that didn't understand that, you know, i really did not have any control over the situation. >> united airlines denies these alle

reached out to harper to get a better understanding of exactly what happened. >> one look at the calendar tells you schools almost out and none of us want to waste our pressure summer vakszer vacation days stuck in traffic and that's where grid locke game changers come in. ed adam tuss shares secrets to beating traffic to the beach. >> reporter: memorial day's right around the corner. you want to get to the beach but you don't want to sit in the traffic. what are the best beach shortcuts? we have some for you. the funny thing about beach shortcuts, no one really wants to tell you theirs, but we manage today pry some away twisting the arm of a local photographer who lives in cape st. claire, we'll call him joe. he knows some great ways to beat bay bridge traffic but to protect his identity, he insisted he tell us his secrets behind this beach umbrella. everything backs up on the 7 river bridge and it's five lanes and it gets down to three that

out. so the idea is to bail before you get through the parole road area and you can -- all these little roads come back here, you can side track the seven river traffic and get right back on 50 to continue your route. >> reporter: thursday is the new friday when it comes to bay bridge traffic. now once across the bridge, check out this tip. >> that is a super secret one. now if 404 is jammed, they'll go right on 13 at bridgeville, then swing a left on to route 20, take it all the way down to route 113, take that down to 26, that elget you right to beth that any beach. >> reporter: whatever you do drive safely and have fun this summer. >> we had even more beach shortcuts for you in our nbc washington app, just search beach shortcuts. back to you. >> up next. he risked his life to help others during the 9/11 terror attacks and died years later becauseth

his health. tonight's the incredible story of one man's

♪ o say can you see >> quite a moving ceremony as that police department recognized it's first line of duty death in 40 years. corporal harvey snookz name was the 7th added to the memorial in the courthouse plaza. he passed away last year but the police work that led to his

decade ago. julie kerry has his story. >> reporter: he loved his family and loved being a police officer and loved fishing. he and a police buddy were on a boat in the water on the morning of pentagon. their peaceful outing suddenly ended. >> we saw a flame. i mean it must have gone 300 feet in the air, 400 feet and we were -- we were on the water in my boat and literally the water shook. >> reporter: they quickly learned it was a terrorist attack and both hurried to work and hurried toward danger. he was sent to the pentagon and i was sent to the traffic post, close by but off-site to help evacuate. >> reporter: snook began the terrible task of insisting through the rubble. >> he called me that day and said you're not going to believe

have melted right off. >> reporter: it was the chemicals. later wearing protective suit. back in his pennsylvania hometown, snookz mom worried a little about the hazardous work. >> i was proud that he was there helping them and this is what he loved to do. i'm doing what i love to do. >> reporter: as the years rolled on he became a canine officer, was promoted to corporal, he meantered younger officers. at 6'4", he left a lasting impression wherever he went. >> always had a smile on his face and laughing. he always had some type of harvey wisdom for you and always speak his mind. >> reporter: in may of 2014 some grim news, his fishing friend now a retired officer had kidney cancer. three months later more bad news. >> harvey calls me and says, i've got a tumor also and it's about 17 centimeters. >> reporter: surgery took car

nonhodge kins limb foamia. a tougher case. doctors eventually told him there was nothing he could do. >> this was the only time i seen him cry and he just broke down and sobbed for probably a half an hour. but the only thing he was thinking about was his mother. >> reporter: smook passed away january 14th 2016. >> we didn't give up hope and he didn't until the very end. >> reporter: doctors determined snook's cancer resulted from his work at the pentagon. today his mother and friends were there as the plague recognizing this line of duty death was unveiled. >> he's such a hero and i can picture him up there now saying, i'm not a hero. i'm just doing my job. >> reporter: even as he was dying, harvey snook never looked back. >> was he bitter about his duties, no. he's glad he was part of it. i'm glad i was part of it too. i was history. i just wish he hadn't

so young. >> reporter: some consolation now that his sacrifice is being honored. >> it just shows how much he loved his job and how much the people loved him. that's what consoles me. >> reporter: in arlington, i'm julie kerry, news4. >> so many first responders put themselves in harms way. >> yeah. >> on 9/11 here. >> yeah. harvey snook, one of 126. hopefully they all sort of -- this will change things that they all get that recognition that even though the affects didn't begin right away, it all circles back to what happened on 9/11. >> that's right. doug is back with a check on our weather and the big changes in store for us. >> huge changes, going from a beautiful day today. this is the kind of -- of day that we hope to see in the month of may, 76 sunshine, tomorrow we're not getting any of that. we're getting clouds and rain and temperatures only in the 50s. pretty nasty day tomorrow. hopefully it's after three

and nationals, especially caps and wizards and then nationals in that order tonight because that's based on importance, as long as we win, rain tomorrow will be okay. hopefully it's not the tears that are going to be flowing with the rain tomorrow. i've got good thoughts. 75 right now winds out of the north 7 miles per hour. we've seen a couple of showers but this isn't really hitting the ground. this is all part of our system. here's a big system back to the north and we still have that boundary right across our region. this storm will come across chicago and right on down toward our area tomorrow. predicted a nasty day tomorrow. look at the temperatures. not going anywhere. 56 degrees at 7:00, 57 maybe around 4:00. rain likely throughout the day. it'll be periods of rain, not all day rain but definitely make sure you have the umbrella handy. 57 tomorrow, 55 drizzle on friday. saturday, rain early, a

i'm expecting upward of an inch to an inch and a half thursday into saturday. 73 degrees on mother's day. look at next week. nice and hot when we get up to that 90 degree range or at least close to it. that's spring for you. cool then hot. >> bring it on. thank you, doug. >> leon was walking through the newsroom bright red shirt, red tie, red dress, but for some reason, it didn't get through to doug. i don't know why. we're less than an hour away from a big game between the caps and penguins. >> fans piling into the verizon center right now and they're hoping they won't leave disappointed. leon's in chinatown. you got to be talking to at least a few people who are a little nervous? >> reporter: absolutely. but you wouldn't believe it but the people who are the most nervous are the penguin fans who are here.

unfortunately there aren't that many of us, they would be an endangered species here. they're saying this caps team is different and they're a little worried after what they saw in game six on monday. as a matter of fact, we even found a bunch of people here who are caps fans who are in pittsburgh at that game monday night and they told me that berry trots has got them convinced that this team is ready to change the script. the caps season comes to that happy ending that the fans here have been wanting and needing for so long. we got sign spinners out here. if christopher walken was here we have way too much cowbell believe me. there are folks ready to go inside -- you hear that -- they're ready to go inside and make some noise. everyone here is confident that the caps are going to do it this year. we've been asking you

there because the wizards are also in action, and the nats are hosting the orioles and we've been asking you folks what do you think is more important? and the numbers are on our polls say 51% of you think it should be the caps. if you gauge by the level of confidence bit folks out here they all agree and tonight it's going to get done. back to you. >> we think you're right. thank you, leon. >> fingers crossed. not just leon's going to be anchoring our coverage but we also got the wizards, the

>> announcer: this is the xfinity sports desk. >> see you later. and that's his tenth of the year rbi number 29. >> i don't have enough phones to keep up with it. i don't know what i'm going to do here. >> you got to have three screens to keep up tonight. >> doug's weather center with all his monitors. >> sherree burruss is in boston with the wizards but we're going to start with carol maloney with the caps at verizon center.

around d.c. here it's seventh heaven. game seventh for the washington capitals it's a winner take all. you win or you go home and it may be the most important game in the o.v. era. trying to get out of the second round for the very first time. he's one win away for his first trip. pens undefeated and winners take all game but the only game seven versus pirgz in the o.v. era in 2009 and hopefully you don't remember it. tonight, nothing to do with history and everything to do with having a hunger for this moment. >> it's our biggest game of the year. >> reporter: yeah, yeah. >> so we believe we can bounce back and bring the series -- >> you're going to be excited and nervous.

butterflies as a positive and not being something that shies you away from success. >> everybody's so excited about the fans. you can hear how much the fans are cheefrg today after our little huddle at the end there. it's just fun. do or die. you get to see everybody's best and see what everyone's made of when the pressure's on. >> reporter: the pressure is on. nothing new in this series. and the pressure's on with the wizards too. sherree burruss joibz us from boston. what do you have out there? >> reporter: we have a big game five. the wizards can take a series lead. tonight's game also features the return of kellily ubray junior and said it was a lesson learned. his teammates were out on the floor. ubray he watched from home on his couch with his dad, his sister and he says his dogs. it was maybe during this mornin

envisioning celtic fans filling those seats behind him booing him every time he touches the ball. back in game did not take kindly to some hard picks set by boston's ol in this case to the ground. ubray ejected from the game and suspended in game four. there will be no love lost for him in boston tonight. as for advice from his head coach scott brooks. >> bring some earplugs, right? he's definitely -- they're definitely going to let him have it, but you just go out there and play. >> i'm happy to be in the situation honestly. i'm 21 years old -- how many people are sitting here. they're going to be booing me tonight. they know who i am. we got to go out and get this big win tonight. >> reporter: and moore says just ignore them

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